Asteroid 2010 RA91 will pass relatively close to Earth, but if it poses no threat, why are scientists still watching it so ...
In one of the biggest surprises of NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission, its target asteroid, Bennu, turned out to be a jagged, rugged ...
An old NASA science satellite plunged uncontrolled from orbit and reentered over the Pacific on Wednesday. The U.S. Space ...
Boise State researchers are part of the team behind the Earth Dynamics Geodetic Explorer, or EDGE, a satellite mission concept aimed at monitoring Earth’s land, ice and coastal regions that NASA ...
Lawmakers defended NASA research efforts Wednesday at a hearing on President Donald Trump’s choice to lead the space agency. A bipartisan group of senators urged the White House on Wednesday to ...
A spacecraft could plunge into Earth’s atmosphere as soon as Tuesday. While most of the probe will likely burn up during reentry, a few components are expected to survive.
Mars didn’t always look like the barren world we see today. Over billions of years, the Sun’s solar wind stripped away much of its atmosphere, helping transform it from a warmer, wetter planet into a ...
OCEAN SPRINGS, MS / ACCESS Newswire / March 4, 2026 / The Science Center for Marine Fisheries (SCEMFIS) is pleased to announce that researchers from NASA's Earth Science Division have joined SCEMFIS ...
NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman speaks at an agency town hall Dec. 18, the day after he was sworn in as administrator. Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls It took a year, but the Jared Isaacman era at NASA ...
Understanding the complex, changing planet on which we live, how it supports life, and how human activities affect its ability to do so in the future is one of the greatest intellectual challenges ...
NASA’s MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution) spacecraft, which has been exploring Mars for over a decade, is currently silent after unexpectedly losing contact in December 2025. Despite a ...
The Science Mission Directorate (SMD) of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) conducts both Earth and space science missions. The latter type encompasses missions in planetary ...